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I want to dye not only food, clothing, and shelter, but also working and playing all in the outdoors.
Celeina：What made you decide to turn outdoor activities into a career rather than just a hobby?
Yamada: I worked in the fashion industry for a long time, but I wanted to dye not only food, clothing, shelter, and clothing, but also work, play all in the outdoors.
Takano: So there is a phrase “food, clothing, shelter, work, and play”isn’t there?
Yamada: Is there?
Takano: It may be a phrase originating from Mr. Yamada. And I guess it goes like this: you got hooked on mountain climbing, and then you got hooked on camping.
Yamada: That is exactly right.
Takano: How long have you been camping?
Yamada: I got into camping when I was about 24 or 25 years old, so about 18 years. In the mountains, the objective is to peak hunt, so you have to climb, but camping is a lot of fun with everyone.
Celeina: I’m new to mountain climbing, but what is peak hunting?
Yamada: The objective is to climb all the way to the top of the mountain. That is too stoic, so we want to have fun in a more casual way.
Takano: I would like to ask if you have any recommendations for campgrounds for us camping beginners.
Yamada: Most people who go camping are from the city center, but there is a place called Soleil Hill Auto Campsite in Yokosuka that is easily accessible from the city center and has good facilities. It is both a park and a campground, with a nice view of the ocean right in front of it, and the grass is safe enough for children to run barefoot.
Takano: It sounds like it has good accessibility.
Yamada: It takes about an hour and a half from the center of Tokyo. The other campground is a little different. It is called Doshinomori Campground in Yamanashi Prefecture, which is wilder than the Soleil Hill campground I mentioned. It is surrounded by a forest with a stream running through it, and the autumn leaves are beautiful this time of year, so I highly recommend it. But there is Wi-Fi in the administration building.
Takano: Wi-Fi is available there, so you could use it as a workcation. Thank you very much. Now that you have given us two campsite recommendations, I would like to interject a song here. I asked Mr. Yamada to choose a song that we would all like to listen to together on the radio at this time. What kind of song would it be?
Yamada: It’s a song called “Go Go Sakanatsuri” by Yujiro Kudo. I started listening to it when I started fishing, and I recommend it because you can easily listen to it on the way to outdoor activities.
